Here’s a sneak preview of the final painting in this series: How to Draw Clothing for Your Characters In this lesson, you’ll learn how to draw clothing and realistic hair for your characters. We’ll be focussing on drawing Alice in Wonderland, and using reference pictures to help you along the way. In this lesson, you’ll see …
Take a look at the finished painting in this series: Learn to Draw Faces: Facing the Facts Want to learn to draw faces? Now that you’ve added hair and clothing to your drawing of Alice in Wonderland, it’s time to add those all-important facial features to really give some personality to our painting. Drawing the …
Here’s a preview of how the finished painting will look: Revisiting Revisions Learning how to use the Photoshop transform tool is a viral skill for any digital artist. Why? Because once you’ve sent your first sketch off to your editor, he or she will probably come back with some suggestions or revisions for your work. …
Take a look at our finished painting: Reading Between the Lines For the next part of our line art tutorial, you’ll be adding line art to your finished sketch. Because this is quite a long process, Sycra will be showing you how to do this using time-lapse video to speed everything up. It’s a good idea to …
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Scanning Pencil Drawings: Where to Start Want to learn about scanning pencil drawings and how to clean up a scanned drawing? Start off your drawing from a scan that you have created beforehand. In this step you just want to try and follow the major landmarks for the piece, because you will be painting over …
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Digital Painting Techniques: The Starting Point Here’s the line work that you were left with in our previous lesson on digital painting techniques. You may want to lock the transparency of these lines for the moment so that you will always have them and not be able to accidentally modify them if you select this layer …
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Looking for a Photoshop digital painting tutorial that really works? To start off this lesson, you’ll use a levels adjustment layer to really bring up the whites in the drawing, even blowing out the whites a little bit. If you are not familiar with what ‘blowing out’ a color means, it’s when there is no …
Establishing the Pattern In this lesson on digital art for beginners, you’re going to start adding some pattern to the king’s clothing. Start off by drawing a radial grid on its own layer. Digital art for Beginners: Coloring Using two different layers so you can adjust the color later if needed, color in the …
[full_width_section bg_pos=”Left Top” bg_repeat=”No-Repeat” text_color=”Dark” top_padding=”50″ background_color=”#ffffff”][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]Looking for a Photoshop digital painting tutorial that really works? To start off this lesson, you’ll use a levels adjustment layer to really bring up the whites in the drawing, even blowing out the whites a little bit. If you are not familiar with what ‘blowing out’ a …
Separating the Head In our next instalment of digital painting tips, you’ll be breaking the head apart from the background and setting a nice edge along the head for future work. While you are cutting the head away from the background keep in mind the silhouette of your character and take time to make it as interesting …
Digital Painting | 05 |Separating the Head & Background Read More »